This week’s civics lessons for America’s schoolchildren: Education is a threat to national security.

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Fire Teachers; Hire Guns: The New Plan for National Security
This week’s civics lessons for America’s schoolchildren: Your education is a threat to national security.
July 30, 2010 |

This week’s civics lessons for America’s schoolchildren: Your education is a threat to national security.

The connection between war spending and education budgets was thrown into stark relief as Congress wrestled with the passage of a $33 billion supplemental war bill. To recap: the House tried to add $20 billion in new domestic spending to the bill, including $10 billion to save teachers’ jobs. But last Thursday, the Senate struck out the education assistance needed to save teacher jobs in the fall. Majority Leader Harry Reid conceded that the Senate will have to look for other ways to pass education funding. Yesterday, the House approved $37 billion in new spending for the war in Afghanistan in a 308-to-114 vote.

Welcome to America’s New Plan for National Security!

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So let’s fire the teachers committed to young minds and democracy, and hire more private contractors loyal to shareholders and profits. Let’s keep bilking the poor and rewarding the robber barons. Let’s stop thinking altogether and resign ourselves to a savage and stupid state of affairs that secures nothing but the profits of the war mongers.

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more:
http://www.alternet.org/news/147681/fire_teachers%3B_hire_guns%3A_the_new_plan_for_national_security/